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Collecting data from students with students
Gathering data on university students can provide important information about how they interact with the postsecondary education system, but it is also […]
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Waking up to the reality of Canadian higher education
Higher-education systems in Canada and the United Kingdom share much in common, but there are important differences that faculty on both sides […]
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Understanding the United Kingdom’s Teaching Excellence Framework and its implications
The UK’s new metrics-based teaching evaluation framework is methodologically and politically flawed. What will this mean for the country’s universities and faculty? […]
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There is an appealing simplicity in numbers. A number’s value is never ambiguous, even if its meaning can be. Numbers are specific […]
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The university in the populist age
Right-wing populism threatens the future of higher education, but remaining passive and retreating to a disinterested vision of the university will actually […]
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Trump, Brexit, and the academy
There is some truth in the populist attack that the academy has sold-out to corporate interests and become inaccessible to many. Universities […]
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A populist wake-up call for universities
For many, universities do not represent opportunity or self-realization, but instead elite self-regard and academic exchanges in which they see no relevance. […]
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International students and Canada’s future on the right
Populist and anti-immigrant sentiment in the US and UK means that more international students are coming to study at postsecondary institutions in […]
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Canada’s university administrators must pay attention to right-wing activism on campuses
The surge in racism on university campuses is part of a broader right-wing awakening across the country. University administrators must counter these […]
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Global higher education, social solidarity, and the new nationalism
Higher education serves both national and global interests in the pursuit of knowledge and student learning. Given populism’s nationalist roots, there is […]
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